Power & Society Sayings

I would rather be ruled by a wise Turk than by a foolish Christian.

To conquer the mind is to conquer the world.

It is not wealth or ancestry, but rather the spirit of the age, which has raised me to the highest pinnacle of fame.

It is not wealth or ancestry, but rather the spirit of the age, which has raised me to the highest pinnacle of fame.

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

America is ungovernable for us. He who serves a revolution plows in the sea.

Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound, and it is the one flesh of all humankind.

If the lack of freedom is considered normal, there will be no complaints.

But then you would not be worthy of the crown, but, instead, an enemy of the public well-being of your vassals.

Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt.

I have often thought, that if I were to choose a companion for life, it should be one who had as little money as myself.

The parts of all homogeneal hard bodies which fully touch one another, stick together with a very strong attraction.

I hold the sun to be situated motionless in the center of the revolution of the celestial orbs while the earth revolves around the sun.

The Sun, as if seated on a royal throne, governs the family of stars which wheel around it.

I have a mind that is always seeking new things.

The wise man will want to be rich only in order to be able to help himself and his friends.

If you would be revenged of your enemy, govern yourself.

I have often wished that I had more time to devote to my favourite studies.

Nature can be conquered if we can but find her weak side.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.